Reel



B. D. PETERS.

REEL.

APPLICATION FILED APR 3. 1920.

1 A2 6 ,597, Patented Aug. 22, 1922.

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REEL.

APPLICATION FILED APR 3,1920.

1 26,597, Patented Aug. 22, 1922.

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REEL.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented A g 22 1922 Application filedApril 3, 1920. Serial No. 371,052.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT D. PETERS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Knox, in the'county of Starke and State of Indiana, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Reels, of which the following 1sa specification. Y

My present invention has reference to a line drying reel and may beconsidered in the nature of an improvement on the line drying reel uponwhich I received United States Letters Patent No. 1,286,085, on November28, 1918.

In my referred to patent the line drying reel is designed to be employedin connection with the usual casting reel. WVith my present constructionI dispense with the usual casting reel, and provide a combined castingand line drying reel in a unitary structure.

It is also the purpose of the present invention to produce a combinedcasting and line drying reel in which a perfect casting can be made fora comparatively great distance, and in which the unwinding of the reelis at all time under control of the angler, and also in which the dangerof back-lashing is entirely obviated.

It is a further object to produce a combined drying and casting reelwhich shall be of a comparatively simple construction, and easilyoperated, and in which the tension may be readily regulated so that thereel will wind or unwmd at varying desired speeds.

A further object of the invention is to produce a combinedcasting andline drying reel in which the turning of the reel, when a casting ismade is under control of the thumb of the angler so that the line can becast at varying predetermined distances and to desired places in thewater and also whereby a slight pressure of the anglers thumb willprevent back-lashing.

()ther objects and advantages will present themselves as the nature ofthe invention is more fully understood, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings in which there is illustrated a satisfactoryreduction of the improvement to practice.

{[n the drawings Figure 1 is a view showing my improvement attached toan ordinary fishin pole.

Figure 2 is a front elevation of t e improvement on an enlarged scale.

Figure 3 is a rear view thereof.

Figure 4 is a sectional view approximately on the hue 4-4 of Figure 3. I

F lgure 5 is a perspective view of the base or foot plate of the shaftcarried thereby.

Figure 6 is a perspective view of the reel looklng toward the inner facethereof.

Figure 7 is a greatly enlarged sectional vieyv taken through the hubportion of the rec .Clamped, in the usual manner to a rod 1, is the baseor foot portion 2 of my improved reel. The base or foot plate 2 carriesthe outstanding shaft 3, and on the shaft, at the uncture thereof withthe plate 2 is a disk 4. ThlS disk has at its center an outwardlyextending round boss 5. The outer end of the shaft 3 is threaded.

The reel includes a fiat peripherally round plate 6 that, atequi-distant points is provlded, on its periphery with outstanding arms7. The arms are of an equal length, and are given a half-twist each atan equal point from the periphery of the reel so that the outer fiatportions of the arms are arranged at a right angle with respect to theplane of the body plate or disk 6. The arms, at their outer ends areslotted or otherwise formed to provide oppositely disposed angularfingers 8. The opening or space between the fingers is substantiallyV-shaped, but the lower wall connecting each pair of fingers is rounded.

Integrally formed on one of the faces of the disk-like body plate 6 is alaterally arranged hub 9. This hub, adjacent to its ends has angulardepremedl portions 10-10 in which are seated the outer flanged ringmember 11 of a raceway for anti-frictional balls 12. The inner membersof the raceway are indicated by the numeral 13, and are in the nature ofsleeve members having their outer peripheries grooved as at 14 toreceive the anti-frictional balls 12 while through the balls thereof theshaft 3 extends.

The outer raceway for the anti-frictional balls is disposed onlyslightly inward of the outer face of the body plate 6, it being, of

course, understood that the body plate has an opening that aligns withthe portions 11 of the bore of the hub 9, while the inner raceway iscontacted by the hubs 5 on the disk 4. On the threaded end of the shaftI arrange washers 15 that contact with the outer raceway for theanti-frictional elements, and screwed on the said threaded end of theshaft is a nut 16 which contacts with the outer washer 15 and a lock-nut17 that contacts with'the nut 16. On the outer face of the body plate 6,at preferably diametrically opposed points are handle members 18. Thesehandles include outer sleeves that are revoluble on intles or shafts asclearly disclosed by the rawings. The line 19 may be secured to one ofthe arms 7, and is wound between all of the fingers 8. lit will be notedthat the hub of the device is disposed at a convenient place on the rodand contacted by the thumb of the fisherman, and consequently byregulatin the pressure of this thumb on the said hui the rapidity atwhich the reel revolves can be readily regulated so that the line can becast a determined distance and to a determined point by ad-= iusting thepressure of his thumb on the hub, Likewise such premure will effectivelyprevent the back-lashing of the line. The reel is comparatively large insize, and the connecting wall between the spaced fingers on therespective arms being spaced a considerable distance from the peripheryof the body plate 8 permits 'of a free circulation of air to the linewound on the reel. From practice l have found that a line wound on astructure as above described will, without any attention dry in lessthan five minutes, but the throwing of the reel in the air, in thecasting operation causes the same to dry in a far less time, so thateven if the line is partly wet when the cast is made, it will becomparatively dry before reaching the water. The initial tension betweenthe reel and its neaaeer shaft is re lated by the adjusting of the nuts16 an 17.

' While the improvement is primarily devised for use by fishermen, it isto be understood that it is not to be thus restricted, as the line onthe reel may be employed in'kite flying, in the casting of hand renadesor bombs, and the reel upon an en arged scale may be used for windingthe cable attached to a balloon. It is to be understood that while Ihave illustrated and described the preferred embodiment of theimprovement as it now appears to me,'ll may in the future make changestherefrom, and therefore I am entitled to such departures from theshowing and description as fall within the scope of what I claim,

Having thus described the invention, what ll claim is A combined linedrying and casting reel, comprising in combination an anchor plate, adisk on one side thereof, a shaft projecting laterally from'said disk, asecond and relatively large disk having radial arms terminating indivergent fingers, a tubular hub projecting centrally from one side ofsaid second disk, said shaft extending through said hub, ball racewaysseated in said hub at the ends thereof, cooperating raceways carried onthe shaft, and longitudinally slidable thereon, binding means mounted onthe shaft and coasting with said longitudinally slidable raoeways, andlocking means for said raceway coacting means, also mounted on saidshaft,

In testimony whereof l a my signature,

RUBERT D. PETERS

